A Christmas Story (1983 version) comes to single-layered DVD with a standard full-screen aspect ratio. It also includes the following audio track options: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), and Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), with subtitles available in English, Spanish, and French. Closed-captioning is also included, but special features consist only of the usual original theatrical trailers. The plastic DVD case contains a chapter index. Sound and picture are roughly consistent with a VHS-quality film, but the sound is mono throughout the DVD version.

This film comes once again to DVD in a collector's edition version done for the film's 20th anniversary. The collector's edition includes a new documentary ("Back to Somewhere in Time"), a commentary by the film's director, seven production photos, a featurette narrated by one of the founders of the Somewhere in Time Fan Club, English and French language options, English and Spanish subtitles, theatrical trailer, and dual-layer, nonanamorphic widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio) formatting. Picture colors are natural, but somewhat dark. The Dolby Digital 2.0 soundtrack is mono rather than stereo. The plastic case includes a small booklet of production notes and a chapter index.

Filmed on a grand scale, Zulu is a rousing recreation of the January 22, 1879, siege of Rorke's Drift in Natal, Africa. An army of 4,000 Zulu warriors have already decimated a huge British garrison; now they are on their way to the much smaller Rorke's Drift. A Royal Engineers officer (Stanley Baker) is determined to stand his ground, despite having only a skeleton garrison at his command. His steamroller tactics are constantly at odds with those of a by-the-book lieutenant (Michael Caine), who feels that a retreat is called for, but it becomes clear that if the garrison is to survive, they'd better pay heed. Jack Hawkins and Ulla Jacobsson are also on hand as an idealistic missionary and his somewhat more pragmatic daughter. Richard Burton provides the narration for Zulu, closing the film with the observation that 11 of the 1,344 Victoria Crosses awarded since 1856 were bestowed upon the survivors of Rorke's Drift. Zulu was followed in 1979 by a "prequel," Zulu Dawn.